554 LETTERS TO DARWIN AND OTHERS. (1867, 
I have said over and over that it startled me. Then 
it hits so many nails square on the head that I should 
think it could be written only in Cambridge or here- 
abouts. 
It is generally supposed to be written by a person in 
New York, but I suspect a person near by here, — 
only suspect. . . 
Yes, Micninka: seeds hang out awhile in autumn, 
finally stretch and break the "Uarcuds of spiral vessels. 
Whether birds eat them I don’t know. They look 
enticing and have a pulpy coat, are bitter and spicy. 
Shall I send you more of these circulars ? 
I shall send to Indian people too, 
TO CHARLES WRIGHT. 
April 2, 1867. 
I sent your twenty dollars to aid the subserigtion for 
the starving Southerners. There have been handsome 
sums raised for them in the Northern States. But 
I am afraid you must get most imperfect and one- 
sided statements of the doings of Congress by the tone 
of your letters, and decidedly need enlightenment. It 
is the President, not Congress, that needs to learn the 
Constitution and the laws of the land. And your 
Southern loyal friends, if you could get voice of them, 
would beg Congress to take even more urgent steps 
for their protection and defense by reconstruction. 
However, things seem to be going on now pretty satis- 
factorily. The President is sinking into his deserved 
insignificance, and the leading rebels are coming out 
decidedly more sensibly than many of their professed 
Northern friends. And we hope, therefore, that they 
may begin to give some fair chance to the loyal men 
of the South to be heard and to get their rights, which 
